Then there is the issue of how innovative corporations who grow quickly absorb the same petty scumnbags who populate other mediocre companies. I have written about this in some detail in a previous post- Sociopathy, Management and Emerging Organistional Dysfunction. The gist of the post is that innovative corporations that grow quickly end up being staffed and run by uninnovative, rule and procedure obsessed, power-hungry, petty “people” eager to flex their new-found power, with disastrous effects for the organization.

It is also worth mentioning that large hierarchical organizations such as corporations are full of cliques and sub-groups who spend a large percentage of the effort on sabotaging each other and wielding power to gain more control of the organization. Since our current setup isolates such power-hungry and insecure sociopaths from the consequences of their actions, they will often keep on playing their stupid and dangerous games until the coroporation they seek to take control of is no more. Microsoft has suffered from this on a large-scale since Bill Gates resigned as CEO and Steve Jobs was the only reason that Apple did not succumb to this problem as long as he was alive.

Finally there is the issue of “imperial” overreach in which the leader in a given area feels that they can get away with anything regardless of physical and temporal realities. Examples include England on the eve of WW1, France in Vietnam, USSR in Afghanistan and the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. Corporate examples include IBM in computer hardware and the American ‘Big 3′ in automobiles etc.

While each problem is formidable in its own right, Google appears to have the misfortune of suffering from all four problems at once. While they have still not reached levels high enough to irreversibly cripple and implode the company- they could find themselves in that spot in as little as a year or two.

What keep Google going despite the many failed ventures is its cash cow of search money allow them to fuel everything they try. If they somehow manage to lose that money machine, then they will start to feel the pain.

In the meantime, if Android is going to go down by its own weight, how does Windows Phone 7 look? Can its steamlined avoidance of Android’s mistake allow it to gain some ground over Android fragmentation? Or does this mean total dominance of the iPhone?

Well said brah. I know an Indian girl who majored in marketing that recently got hired by Google. She’s an idiot and a whore but has elite credentials that enabler her access to lucrative employment. Google appears to be hiring a lot of Indians as of late. Decline is inevitable. Young Indians hide their nature behind a facade unlike their parents. That’s why even you think they’re not as bad as older Indians which is totally NOT the case.